Talk:Levatores costarum muscles

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The article should be renamed in either Levatores costarum muscles (plural) oder Levator costae muscle (singular) --Uwe Gille (talk) 19:15, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, and have renamed it to "Levatores costarum muscles". (A note to future editors, wondering why we're using the plural form instead of the singular -- I believe the standard for anatomy is to use plurals only when there are multiples on a single side of the body. The body has two biceps muscles, but we refer to the "biceps muscle". However, for levatores costarum, one exists for each rib. See also Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Anatomy/Guidelines#Paired_structures. --Arcadian (talk) 04:50, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]